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A study presented at the American Thoracic Society 2007 International Conference finds that obese people are significantly more likely to have persistent or severe persistent asthma than their thinner counterparts.
The study looked at 3,059 adults with asthma, who were divided into three groups: non-overweight, overweight and obese, based on their body mass index (BMI). Compared with non-overweight asthma patients, obese patients (BMI=30) were more likely to report having continuous symptoms, have more ER visits, miss more days of work, use more rescue inhaler medications and use inhaled steroids to control asthma.
Obese patients were 66% more likely to report having asthma symptoms all of the time, were 47% less likely to be in asthma remission, and 52% more likely to have severe persistent asthma than non-overweight people with asthma. Obese asthmatics were also 36% more likely to miss more than two days of work per year due to asthma than non-overweight asthma patients. |
Have you ever tried dried cherries? Wow, are they good. Truth be told, I couldn’t stop eating them. I kept telling myself that it was just to taste them for research. I tried not to be fooled by the health halo. Thinking: It’s a fruit, so it’s healthy. But I wasn’t mentally prepared, and so I overindulged. I wanted to find out if dried fruit is really healthy — and here’s what I discovered.
